Quote by retrofan01
I saw this online somewhere:
1977-1986: Gen XYers/Xennials
1987-1995: Gen Yers/Millennials
1996-2008: Gen Zers
I may look like I am contradicting myself by analyzing this after my last post, but I'll give it a go anyways.
1977-1986 as a kind of "cusp" generation between X and Y? Interesting thought because sometimes the 2nd half of the baby boomers are called "Generation Jones".
To look for a common similarity with the 1977-1986 group, how about music videos? It is hard to me to say when music videos became a concrete normal but possibly around 1984-85, following the success of Michael Jackson's Thriller. Everyone from 1977-1986 turned 7 at the oldest in 1984 making them young enough to have grown up in a time when music videos were normal. But if you want to turn 8 before 1991 (the year that Nirvana changed the music scene) you can't be born any later than 1982.
Grouping those born in 1987 with those born in 1995 is interesting because 1995 has been labelled generation Z by my most trusted source. You would need to be born in 1992 at the latest to turn 8 before 2001 (the year 9/11 happened). Ignoring 9/11 though, I wouldn't say that the millenium culture had died any earlier than 2003. In my opinion, if you turned 8 in 2002, you were old enough to experience millenium culture. You would need to be born in 1992/93 at the latest to enjoy a good experience of millenium culture because I suspect that the best of millenium culture would've been finished by the time 9/11 happened.
Based on this:
1977-1982: Strong Generation MTV
1983-1986: Weak Generation MTV
1987-1992: Strong Generation Alternative
1993-1994: Weak Generation Alternative
As for Generation Z ending in 2008, they turned 8 in 2016. You could say that everyone born in 2008 or earlier turned 8 before Trump became president. But it may be too early to judge the impact of turning 8 after Obama. I believe that "Modern Animation" (I think it might be known as CGI) had become normal by about 2004, even though Toy Story was supposed to have been made with "Modern Animation", released back in 1995). Social media had definitely had an impact by the time 2010 had ended (about 2006 is when I estimate that the internet culture had really taken over, but I could be a couple of years out) and I would say that the older ways of doing things were already being replaced by many people before the beginning of 2007.
For now:
1995-1997/98: Weak Generation Internet
1998/99-2008: Strong Generation Internet